Metro - File #: 2024-0510

• File #: 2024-0510
• Type: Program
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 7/30/2024
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 9/18/2024
• Title: CONSIDER: A. DEOBLIGATING $5.94 million of previously approved Call for Projects (Call) funding, as shown in Attachment A, and hold in RESERVE; B. APPROVING changes to the scope of work for: 1. City of Los Angeles - Last Mile Folding Bike Incentive Program (Call #F7707); 2. City of Los Angeles - Building Connectivity with Bicycle Friendly Business District (Call #F9803); C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or their designee to negotiate and execute all necessary agreements/or amendments for previously awarded projects; and D. RECEIVING AND FILING time extensions for 49 projects shown in Attachment B.
• Sponsors: Program Management (Department), Maria Luk
• Indexes: Agreements, Audit, Bicycling, Budgeting, Business districts, Call For Projects, Call For Projects Deobligation, Call For Projects Extension, Call for Projects Recertification, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Congestion Mitigation And Air Quality Improvement Program, Deobligation, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, Flexible Funds, Grant Aid, Guidelines, Long Range Transportation Plan, Maps, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Program, Project, Project delivery, Proposition C, Purchasing, Regional Surface Transportation Program, Regional Transportation Planning Agency, Repayment of Capital Project Loan Funds, San Fernando Valley subregion, South Bay Cities subregion, Southern California Association Of Governments, Strategic planning, Subsidies, Surface Transportation Block Grant Program, Technical Advisory Committee, Westside Cities subregion

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Subject
SUBJECT: COUNTYWIDE CALL FOR PROJECTS

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. DEOBLIGATING $5.94 million of previously approved Call for Projects (Call) funding, as shown in Attachment A, and hold in RESERVE;

B. APPROVING changes to the scope of work for:

1. City of Los Angeles - Last Mile Folding Bike Incentive Program (Call #F7707);

2. City of Los Angeles - Building Connectivity with Bicycle Friendly Business District (Call #F9803);

C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or their designee to negotiate and execute all necessary agreements/or amendments for previously awarded projects; and

D. RECEIVING AND FILING time extensions for 49 projects shown in Attachment B.

Issue
ISSUE

Each year the Board must recertify funding for Prior Call projects in order to release the funds to project sponsors. The Board must also approve the deobligation of lapsing project funds after providing project sponsors the opportunity to appeal staff's preliminary deobligation recommendations to Metro's Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). The Board must also approve changes to the project scope of work. Staff has evaluated the proposed changes and found that they are consistent with the intent of the original scope of work. The Board must also receive and file the time extensions granted through previously delegated Board authority. The background and discussion of each of these recommendations can be found in Attachment C.

Background
BACKGROUND

The Call, an existing competitive grant program dating back to the early 1990s, programs transportation funds to local jurisdictions for regionally significant projects that are often beyond the financial capabilities of local sponsors. The last Call cycle, including all funding commitments and project scopes of work, was approved by the Metro Board in September 2015.

The Call process imple...